Last week I became a happy owner of Martin DX1 REA. It's pretty low price butmore than awesome for that amount of money. As far as I'm not a strictly acoustic player, I needed an instrument that's not gonna be full professional (for example...won't make my cry when I leaft it somewhere on the festivals or someone break it) but from the other side won't also make me uncomfortabe while playing. After some time I spent on trying different guitars I finally found this Martin (I'm not the "logo magic" type of guy) and it really works for me. Very deep tone, no annoying high mids, crystal treble end + pretty descent sound from piezo. It has hidden tone and vol regulation (resonance hole) and I can use all of guitar body for fingerstyle percussive tones. Perfect intonation and fretwork.
Other words - more than good intrument and very hard to compare (in the good way) to other propositions at this price range. I'll make some demos when I'll have a while. Currently I just used it at the festival I was participating.
Only uncomfortable thing is the truss rod screw placement - ver deep. You need 5" wrench to adjust the neck. At the beginning I thought it has no neck adjustment because of the price Some of my friends who indeed are mainly acoustic players confirmed my choice. Also...(this is sad) but it seemed to sound better than my father's Taylor, which is twice as expensive.
I hope I'll have some better quality recording from this performance, but by far here it is (25 min)
Learning Tone Master Posts: 2.324
Joined: 12-July 13
From: Bucharest, Romania
I like the both guitars how sound together. Congrats to your father for the prize! I always thought that It's a great feeling to have ocasion to play with your father on the stage
Yes it is...we both have sa same passion - music. Only difference is that he's mostly the lirycs writterand I'm just an instrumentalist All audio in this vid is focus too much on the mid-range but within few weeks there should be descent TV material from the festival
